Odyssey
Odysseus at the court of King Alcinous of Phaeacia
recounts
his adventures thus far—1/6 of the Odyssey
Books 9–12
Cicones—battle
Lotus eaters
Cyclopes
Polyphemus
They sharpen a giant stick
unaccustomed to wine
unmixed
“Nobody” is my name
Escape on the bellies of rams
in the morning
Taunts him, and reveals his real
name
“A prophecy told me one would
come—I expected bigger
I'm telling my dad,
Poseidon”
Escape
Island of
Aeolus—wind king
gives them
bag—don't open it
within sight of
Ithaca
his
greedy men open it
and
they are blown away
they must
be hated by the gods, I'm not helping any more
Laestrygonians
island of
cannibals
destroy
all his ships but his own
eat
the men like eels
Circe—(Medea's aunt)
Hermes protects Odysseus
Stay for a year
they must cross
Ocean to ask the help of Tiresias
·
Sirens
·
Scylla and Charybdis
·
and don't touch the Cattle of Helius
Encounter with Tiresias: Underworld
Sirens—stuff their ears with
wax
beautiful
song (the whole story of Troy?)
Scylla 2 3 4 and Charybdis—a rock and a sucky place
(she eats six
men)
Wash up on Island
of Helius
Odysseus reconnoiters—his men are
starving-eat some cattle
Helius
complains to Zeus
destroys
the ship
he
washes onshore of Calypso—alone